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By: Taqbir Huda* This article was selected as winner the 2025 HHRJ Student Essay Contest. INTRODUCTION Actuarial risk assessment instruments (ARAIs) are increasingly used to inform policing, sentencing, and parole decisions in liberal democracies such as the United States and the United Kingdom. However, growing evidence suggests that ARAIs perpetuate systemic biases, disproportionately labelling ethno-racial […]

Study on Inequality in Life and Death: The Duty to Investigate and Remedy the Systemic Causes of the Deaths of Persons with Disabilities under International Law (International Disability Alliance, Geneva, 2025) Gerard Quinn* “The only thing that makes sense of the loss of your loved one is that maybe lessons will be learned and the same

Reading Lemkin Today: Is Genocide Law Fit for the Purpose He Intended? Paul O’Brien*[1] On December 5, 2024, Amnesty International published a major research report on the international human rights crime of genocide. The report, You Feel Like You Are Subhuman: Israel’s Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,[2] found a genocide had already taken place in

Start the Clock* By Eli Cooper** This essay was selected as the Runner Up for the HHRJ Spring 2025 Essay Contest. I. Introduction Intersex people are far too often left out of conversations surrounding rights protections around the world.[1] They often experience extreme violations of their human rights, including but not limited to “infanticide .

The Journal’s Volume 38 Events HHRJ was lucky to have an excellent slate of events this academic year. Please find below a recap of the year.

HHRJ Book Review – Righting Wrongs By Jonathan Tucker* Kenneth Roth, the long-time director of Human Rights Watch, presents his new memoir, Righting Wrongs (Alfred A. Knopf, February 2025), as a testament to the most effective practices for safeguarding human rights worldwide.[1] While not a practical manual per se, Righting Wrongs does accomplish the goal

HHRJ Book Review – Human Rights on the Move By Eli Cooper* “Human rights is a field of play with a set of failures designed in it.”[1] “[T]he fact that . . . we had to come together as a human society to say, these are the rules, was another way of acknowledging that we

Sport Arbitration and Human Rights: An Overview of the Semenya Judgement Before the European Court of Human Rights By Ilias Bantekas* Abstract Sports contracts between sport governing bodies (SGBs), such as FIFA and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and athletes typically contain, or refer to, an arbitration clause that provides for resolution of disputes initially

“Civil Death” and Labor Market Alienation: Comparative Analysis of Legislation Limiting Access to Work for the Justice Impacted in OECD Countries Matt Saleh, Timothy McNutt, Jodi Anderson Jr., Ethan Mulroy, Samantha Na, Sarina Zhou Cornell University, ILR School, Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative Abstract Many nations around the world have legislation that restricts access to